The east of the river goes to the waves, and the characters are romantic through the ages.

I sat on the boat crossing the river, leaning towards the shore with the undulations of the waves, left and right like a forest of swords and guns, and the armor and light were weaving, and I couldn't help but have such a mentality and thoughts.

Now that the two major naval armies in Jiangbei have surrendered, crossing the river is no longer a problem, and when I set out, Jingkou even began to repair the iron-locked pontoon bridge that crossed the river.

It's a pity that this "Red Cliff Nostalgia" has been used by the predecessor of the traverser, so it is still engraved on the mountain stone of Aotou Rock for people to see.

The only thing I can copy is Yang Dian's "Linjiang Immortal" in the Ming Dynasty, which is a revision of the theme song of the modern Three Kingdoms TV series.

It's a pity that the crowd of people who are squirming along the river like refugees in ragged clothes have somewhat destroyed this lofty ambition.

Those people in Jiangbei with dull expressions, disheveled and scarred, were obviously ravaged by the retaliatory ravages of the officials and soldiers who had crossed the river before, but as if they had been accustomed to it countless times, they tried to support each other, or carried the unfortunate deaths, and walked towards a messy homeland.

In fact, the continuous turbulent times can easily refresh people's lower limit for rulers again and again, as long as they can live, everything else is floating clouds, or as long as they grit their teeth, they can get through the ups and downs, as long as people still have a breath in a qiē, there is hope.

Guabuzhou arrived, and after stepping on the land, we entered the territory of traditional Yangzhou, which was under the jurisdiction of Jiangyang County.

However, the war has already gone away with the troops who set off again, and the collapse of the Huainan Domain Alliance does not mean that everything is fine. The various counteroffensive tactics and measures were accompanied by intrigues and intrigues that divided and collapsed

Our troops walked non-stop through the desolate Jiangyang County, and arrived at the current seat of Yangzhou, Jiangdu City, where I used to pass through, and once again stationed there, receiving supplies and equipment maintenance from the sea on the spot, with an emphasis on gunpowder that could not be provided locally.

However, before crossing the river, I dealt with a hand again, that is, the prisoners of the Jiangning Army in my hand, and suddenly made a riot, solemnly making a request, hoping to give me a life or two.

This result was quite unexpected, and I later found out that it was actually because I had people treat their injuries. Of course, I didn't mean it was a well-intentioned or humanitarian reason, but I just lacked the materials to train in the field of health care.

The wounded of these captives were retained to practice with battlefield first aid such as sutures, debridement and repair, so that they could quickly bring out a group of simple and quick medical soldiers, and it would not be a pity to die anyway, coupled with simple battlefield nutrition taboos and health and epidemic prevention measures, such a military medical system was initially formed.

However, this has an unintended consequence, the post-infection mortality rate of the wound is quite high, and if there is no corresponding special tools to deal with the bandage,

Therefore, after the rough treatment, many of our captives survived, and they were willing to join the army under their command.

In their words, they are all rotten lives, and they have already done their best for the old master, and one of the reasons is to continue to eat military rations in a place with better treatment. At least even these enemies can be treated kindly, and they must be a big-minded and bold general.

Of course. I've long passed the kind of middle two years old who can't extricate myself as soon as I am touted, whether they are sincere or not, these captives are just a dispensable embellishment to me.

Although there were also friendly troops who were recruited from these local armies to recruit rebel reinforcements, I, as a believer in the doctrine of focusing on elite soldiers, were not guilty of doing so at all.

However, this time, Lu Wuguan, who has never taken the initiative to act, uncharacteristically communicated with Xin Jiaxuan first, and then joined forces with him to persuade me again and accept the contribution of some people.

The reason is very simple, the value and survival of the provisional fourth battalion proves that no matter how elite our new army is, it needs ordinary troops of a corresponding scale that specialize in supporting us and play the role of some kind of peripheral and cannon fodder, or the need to relieve the more elite core combat power from daily chores.

Even to use some kind of more fruit-eating words to say that in this general trend of the Northern Expedition that swept the world, we, a small group that has just seen its embryonic form, also need to have enough strength to make our own voice and create opportunities to make contributions, rather than just going with the flow and ignoring the general trend, even if it is a group of cannon fodder pawns.

It is obvious that this series of battles will give them some expectation and confidence in order to raise a sufficient scale of men and equipment, and then they will have the capital to seek the corresponding establishment and status from the country and the dynasty according to the role and prospects they can play.

At least the Runzhou soldiers are not as bad as I see, because Runzhou actually has a name after the Tang Dynasty, and before that it had another name - Danyang County, yes, it is Danyang County, the so-called "Danyang elite soldiers", and even from the Three Kingdoms to the Northern and Southern Dynasties, there are only a handful of excellent soldiers who can compete with the north

It is said that Emperor Wu Sun Quan's troublesome pro-army, most of them came from here, and then the successive dynasties were the frontier of the south to resist the north, and the people were fierce and brave, even in the chaotic times at the end of the Sui Dynasty, in the dust and smoke on the ground, there was also something out

Until the Tang Dynasty was established, the world was unified and there was nothing to do at home, and Danyang became an unimportant inland hinterland Runzhou, and then after the Yiwei Rebellion, the descendants of these Danyang soldiers were honed out

Don't look at the fact that they are often abused by the Huaiyang army in Jiangbei, it is because the navy army is sluggish and is pressed and beaten, this time it is because the upper echelons directly lost the will to resist, so they changed hands relatively smoothly.

However, thousands of rebellious Runzhou troops were the forerunners, and it was enough to ⊥ Jingkou to recover and lose chaos for a while. In fact, as the Jiangning Army, a considerable part of the troops came from the nearby Runzhou area.

According to the system of the national dynasty, the military can be considered outside! It is a temporary organization with no specific number limit, and it should be gathered and dispersed from time to time, as long as you can maintain it logistically.

In this case, I also doubled the provisional auxiliary fourth battalion to 11 large regiments, and the locals and the soldiers of the country were dismantled and mixed, and rearmed with the captured equipment.

Then I symbolically selected a dozen more experienced sergeants from among them, and incorporated them into my personal regiment as a measure to invite the hearts and minds of the people to give them trust, so that the hearts of the people could be used.

When Jiangdu received further supplies, the reward finally arrived.

I also took advantage of the situation to pay the first field salary, including regular salary, military allowances and service expenses, and the auxiliary staff also had half of the income, and even those local soldiers who had just joined the army were more or less given a little symbolic salary.

I mainly paid with small silver treasures and big white-eyed money that were easy to carry, but it didn't cause a stir because of it.

Looking at the few white flowers and bright Liang Bao Qian in their hands, many people need to take a hard bite to be sure that it is true, not something to fool people, so they smirked and were pushed aside by their impatient companions behind.

The old men of the first and second battalions who followed me in the early years were fine, but they were smiling or talking on the spot, looking forward to the use and planning of these incomes.

The third battalion and even the fourth battalion were in an uproar. Because it is said that this is the first time that they have received a full salary without layers of discounted water, and without changing the price for other things,

Under the excitement of the crowd, some people cried with tears on the spot, and then many people were infected, and they became crying on the spot, so that the Yu Hou, who was in charge of counting the heads and distributing military salaries, was a little overwhelmed, and almost dispatched the pacesetter team to suppress it.

It was only later that I understood the reason for their gaffe. The third battalion is mainly selected from the guns of the various armies of the land division of the country, and it belongs to the bottom role of a certain kind of treatment and attention on weekdays, while the fourth battalion is mainly from those miscellaneous troops of the second and third lines, as well as some local soldiers who have been converted and retained by the local government.

You must know that for those feudal town armies, in addition to the tooth army and personal soldiers who guard the domain marshal, they can enjoy the regular salary in full, and the other troops also have various deductions and workarounds according to the important Cheng Dù and 369 of the Qing Dynasty.

Some miscellaneous troops use all kinds of physical objects to fold and send their subordinates, mainly backlogged loot or old things in the warehouse, and then the soldiers have to go to the street to find merchants to forcibly buy and sell when they get their hands, so that they can become cash in the bag.

Or let them rob the people to support their families and fill their pockets. There are also unscrupulous people, directly before the deadline for pay, drive them to be cannon fodder to death, so as to save the corresponding expenses, so under normal circumstances, they can mix their stomachs and have the opportunity to rob the income, even if it is an enviable life and treatment.

For the army of the Southern Dynasties, although the relative conditions are better and the appearance is not so ugly, there are also all kinds of drawbacks and insider stories, and the most common mild workaround is to pay the soldiers' salaries on a quarterly basis in the name of preventing escape, and even delay until half a year before settling it.

Only when it was time to go out on the expedition was the full amount paid on time, which was said to prevent soldiers from fleeing and disturbing the local area. Then, when the salary is paid, the military salary will be exchanged from the standard silver money with a larger face value into loose money of uneven quality, which is delicious and the interest rate difference in the middle.

Through these means, the large amount of military expenditure intercepted during this period can be diverted for other purposes to breed all kinds of income and invest in various business activities, which can be regarded as relatively conscientious, and privately lending usury is undoubtedly the favorite thing for these military generals to do.

Thinking that I insisted on paying my salary on a monthly basis, and paid out of my own pocket to make up for the injustices of the part that was not in good condition, it was simply a wonderful model of conscience and morality, and of course, I was regarded as a kind of trium and a loser, and I was criticized and ridiculed for a period of time behind my back

This salary is painful to the depths of their hearts.

Therefore, when the people's hearts were available, I took the opportunity to make an enthusiastic mobilization speech, and the screams of their incitement, eager to make meritorious contributions, promotion and fortune, were at my fingertips, and the little estrangement and resentment that the third battalion was collectively punished were wiped out together.

Immediately after the supply ship regiment came, the auxiliary brigade of the military merchants and military families represented by Zheng Zhou finally caught up. Meet us in Jiangdu,